James FarmerLet’s Don’t Get Burned Again!
While walking to work today, I thought about the recent Bush decision to shift Karl Rove away from administration policy making and back to national politics. This shift evidences a tacit admission of a failed administration.
During the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, the nation was told over again how Republican policies, particularly those of Bush, would put the nation back on track to prosperity and security. There would be no looking back, and no need to look back. Alleged mismanagement by the Democrats would be quickly exposed and repaired. In the process, the nation would come to appreciate Republican policies and control. The need for Rovian-like political meddling would become obsolete. Remember??
Yet here we are, approaching mid-term elections in 2006 with the nation facing crisis upon crisis from Republican policies and control - e.g., turmoil in the middle-east, environmental destruction, and near universal disdain, if not downright hatred, of our country by the rest of the world. Things are so bad, apparently, that Rove has been directed, once again, to focus not on administration policy making, but on national politics – the Republican dream failed, requiring Rovian political meddling yet again.
We, as a nation, listened to Rovian politics twice before, in 2000 and 2004, and were badly burned as a result. If we listen to those same politics again, we deserve everything that we get in response, including the shame of potentially destroying this once great nation of ours. A safeguard against this result is to return control of Congress to the Democrats in 2006, and place a check against the damage that this lamest of lame-duck administrations can do during its final two years of power. Let’s don’t get burned again!
April 21st, 2006 at 10:55 am
Interesting way of characterising the apparent state of disarray among the repugs. I guess we will now be treated to lots of new things that we citizens should be fearing - e.g., those pesky illegals who, of course, all have Osama as their next of kin.
April 21st, 2006 at 12:35 pm
Apparently, Mr. Rove himself is thinking about the very same thing!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/20/rove.move/index.html
April 21st, 2006 at 6:45 pm
In my opinion, Karl Rove has caused enormous damage to this country. He is, perhaps, equally or even more responsible for the damage than Bush. I truly believe that Rove considered Americans as a bunch of sheep who would fall in line with his ideals using a God-based rallying cry to rally the sheep. Kinda like “get the mindless or the believers to rally behind some contrived cause - e.g., democratic bungling, or perhaps lingering hatred for or fear of Hillary - and then unleash the power of America on the rest of the world, especially the middle-east.” His plan appears to have borne some validity, at least to some extent. Indeed, Bush came to power and the rest is history. The question posed by the top post demands, however, an answer. Are we going to let history repeat itself, or are we going to learn from our mistakes?